Lisbon, Portugal, January 21st, 2025,
Chainwire
Today the Obol Collective announced its Decentralized
Operator Ecosystem (DOE) and airdropped the new OBOL Token to
thousands of Ethereum solo stakers, Rocketpool node operators, Obol
Techne Credential holders, and other core community members.
The DOE, consisting of over 600 credentialed mainnet distributed
validator (DV) operators and 3000+ testnet DV operators, aims to
scale and decentralize infrastructure networks as it has done for
major Ethereum protocols. In addition, the launch of the OBOL Token
seeks to decentralize ownership and initiate governance within the
Obol Collective. With these moves, Obol is supporting the
Ethereum node operator community with additional opportunities
while scaling decentralized infrastructure networks.
Obol distributed validators (DVs) have significantly reduced
Ethereum’s centralization risks, with over 600 mainnet operators running more than 1,000
nodes, collectively securing over $700 million of Ethereum stake.
DVs reduce barriers and create opportunities for home operators,
and enabled leading liquid staking protocols such as Lido & EtherFi to expand the size
of their operator sets by tenfold. Notably, home operators running DVs
outperform professional operators using traditional validators.
At DevCon 2024, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin acknowledged the
pivotal role of Obol’s Squad Staking for democratizing access for
at-home operators.
With the Decentralized Operator Ecosystem (DOE) now a proven
model for scaling operator networks and empowering home operators,
Obol is expanding to Gnosis Chain,
and actively exploring additional use cases on Monad and Ethereum
L2s.
The OBOL Token will serve as the backbone of the Collective’s
governance, operations, and incentive mechanisms. To decentralize
ownership and governance of the Obol Collective, a snapshot of
stakers and operators was taken on January 13, 2024. This is
followed by an airdrop of locked OBOL Tokens on January 21, 2024.
The tokens will unlock after the successful completion of the first
retroactive funding (RAF) round, carried out via governance.
About The Obol Collective
The Obol Collective is a collection of teams and
individuals working together to strengthen the security,
resiliency, and decentralization of Web3 infrastructure networks,
through the development and deployment of distributed
validators.
Users can learn more at obol.org, and blog.obol.org/airdrop
Contact
Austin Park
DV
Labs
growth@dvlabs.tech